Production Director
Tasks:
-Manage the production of a TV series in 3D on time and on budget -Participate in the recruitment of specililized staff
- Participate in the development of a new pipeline in colaboration with management.
- Organize inter-departmental communication
- Train a “local line producer.”
- Create a Production dpt, supervize production staff
- Establish customer relationships
- Participate in the asssement of quotations
Skills:
experience in 3D
Ability to manage a production TV series in 3D
Communication skills and organization.
Team spirit
Speak and read English fluently (native preffered)
Console Designer
Responsibilities :
To design game rules, functions and levels of 3D PC and Console ,and compile files of production teams
Requirement:
1. Bachelor degree or above without major limits. Ability to process Art and Word basis
2. Good command of MS Office，Photoshop etc. Good communication skills in English with foreigners directly
3. Experience in game design at least 2 years
4. Keeping abreast of game, and passionate about game design
Pitch Game Designer
Virtuos Europe is looking to work with a Creative Director in order to increase his capacity to invent concept and bring fresh ideas. If you want to be part of the most exciting and fast growing Chinese company, working with leading worldwide publishers on multiple projects of different size and platform. If you are a video gaming industry veteran, and you are able to add innovation and creativity within requirement . Don’t hesitate to contact us.
Possible Missions will be :
- Propose creative game concept within the constraint provided by client:
- Study RFP and identify the needs from the client and the license.
- Brainstorm on projects for all platforms and suggest original touch.
- Produce punchy presentation based on game concept and be able to sell the ideas within.
Where is the office : Near Paris (Cergy) but Telework is possible if you accept to come to office in some occasion.
Profile :
- Freelance status required
- Fluent in English Mandatory
- Launched commercially successful titles as Creative Director
- Excellent Knowledge of video game
- Passionate and Creative
- Capacity to communicate and summarize idea by writing
- Marketing skill is a plus
- Artistic background can be appreciate
- Extra knowledge of game design (level building, scriptwriting, IA tuning, gameplay , etc…) is a plus
Assistant Manager
Responsibility:
1) Assist Game Producer in implementing all the project related issues
2) regularly phone and talk to foreign clients to get the feedback about our projects
3) Communicate both internally and externally to ensure the optimum performance of the project team.
4) Generate reports and take responsibility for budget, planning and schedule
Requirement:
1) Bachelor degree in any discipline
2) CET 6, TEM 8 is preferred, Excellent English skills in writing, speaking and translation
3) Must be passionate about game industry and love games
4) Good organization and analytical skills
We welcome fresh graduates in 2009 with Bachelor Degree in English, Business or Arts who have passed CET 6 or TEM 8 to apply for this position.
Position is available in Shanghai and Chengdu, Please send resume, motivation letter with reference number (If available) to hr(at)virtuos.com.cn, or write to HR Department, Virtuos, 10th Floor, 1326 Yan’an Xi Lu, 200052 Shanghai, PRC; hr.chengdu(at)virtuos.com.cn, or write to HR Department, Virtuos Ltd., 12th Floor, Everbright Finance Center, No.9 Wenwu Road, Qingyang District, 600017, Chengdu, PRC
Game Producer
Responsibility:
1) Supervise and coordinate production of games on a number of platforms
2) Take responsibility for final quality, planning，timing and budget of production and ensure that such objectives are met.
3) Ensure that Game production methods are known and used by all team members.
4) Manage communication and coordinate game production team with other teams in and out of China
Requirement:
1) Bachelor degree or above for leading University, with at least 2 years experience in project management, including team supervision;
2) Good working knowledge of Video Games and also, understanding of how game software is made. Knowledge of game production tools and production pipeline.
3) Self-motivated and responsible individual, as demonstrated by past achievements in previous jobs
4) Excellent English communication skills: ability to make presentations to foreign clients.
Position is available in Shanghai and Chengdu, Please send resume, motivation letter with reference number (If available) to hr(at)virtuos.com.cn, or write to HR Department, Virtuos, 10th Floor, 1326 Yan’an Xi Lu, 200052 Shanghai, PRC; hr.chengdu(at)virtuos.com.cn, or write to HR Department, Virtuos Ltd., 12th Floor, Everbright Finance Center, No.9 Wenwu Road, Qingyang District, 600017, Chengdu, PRC
Associate Producer
Requirement:
1) Bachelor Degree from prestigious university, overseas education with Arts background is preferred
2) At least TEM 4 or CET 6, Excellent English communication skills, ability to make presentations to foreign clients
3) Major in Arts/Design such as Industrial Design, Oil Painting, Sculpture, etc is preferred
4) Love games and motivated to join Game industry
We also welcome fresh graduates with Arts background and excellent English communication skills to apply for this position.
Position is available in Shanghai and Chengdu, Please send resume, motivation letter portfolio with reference number (If available) to hr(at)virtuos.com.cn, or write to HR Department, Virtuos, 10th Floor, 1326 Yan’an Xi Lu, 200052 Shanghai, PRC; hr.chengdu(at)virtuos.com.cn, or write to HR Department, Virtuos Ltd., 12th Floor, Everbright Finance Center, No.9 Wenwu Road, Qingyang District, 600017, Chengdu, PRC
Planning Manager – Shanghai
Recalls task and plan information
Able to plan and allocate resources
Input future plan information to enable the team to know what has been done and what will be done
Set priorities for the team
Follow up and update project plans on regular basis, identify potential risks and seek solutions
Able to work on EXCEL and Micorsoft Project
Must be bilingual ( both English and Mandarin) with bachelor degree
Strong analytic and coordination skills.
Please send resume, motivation letter with reference number (If available) to hr(at)virtuos.com.cn, or write to HR Department, Virtuos, 10th Floor, 1326 Yan’an Xi Lu, 200052 Shanghai, PRC
Console Senior Designer
Responsibility:
1) Work the Lead Level Designer to design the story, layout and game flow of levels, based on objectives from the game vision.
2) Communicate with the artists, programmers, and other members of the design team
3) Adjust terrain, place objects and enemies using in-house editing tools.
4) Work with the team to create and refine combat encounters.
5) Script triggers for events and in-game cinematic moments
6) Collaborate with the team for improvements to the tools and pipeline
7) Iterate for optimal performance, memory usage, and user experience, holding your work to a high standard of quality
Requirement:
1) Familiar with games.
2) Minimum one map created in a game editor (Counter-Strike, Warcraft 3, Call Of Duty, Unreal). If possible, please attach it to your resume and describe what you did
3) Good understanding of a map structure, level flow and challenge
4) Strong communication and collaboration skills
5) Attention to detail and a sense that nothing is ever “good enough.”
6) Bachelor with good command of written and spoken English
Plus:
1) Previous experience with 3-D tools and other common design tools
2) Experience working on an Action game
2D UI Designer
Responsibility:
1）Communicate with game designers, programmers and UI artists to create flowchart and design layout for console games
Requirement:
1）Clear logic in game UI design
2）Experience with Game UI or software UI or website design
3）Experience with Photoshop, illustrator and flash, etc
4）Passionate about video games
5）Good command of English is a plus
Game Design Manager
The design department manages over 40 designers (and growing) across 2 studios and several simultaneous projects. The 3 missions of the Design Department are:
- MISSION #1: Producers get the support they need from designers to finish their projects on time, with quality and within budget
- MISSION #2: We create good conditions for designers to do their best job
- MISSION #3: Designers are trained and grow so that it benefits both them and Virtuos
We are now looking for Design Managers for our Chengdu and Shanghai studios.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Senior Design Manager to manage the Design Department
- Collaborate with the Executive Production team on setting up new projects
- Assign designers on projects, according to the project’s specificities
- Support producers to set up design process on their projects
- Support design leads all along the project to achieve quality and maintain good working conditions
- Review deliveries to clients and improve when necessary. The Design Manager may be asked to punctually work low level
- Review project’s quality and design team’s performance; report to the Production team
- Evaluate designers’ performances and give them personal objectives to improve their performance
- Organize training, best practices, instructions and other material to grow designers
- Collaborate with HR to recruit new designers
Requirements:
- At least 10 years in the Game Industry, in a design position
- All-around designer: has worked on systems, levels, with some experience in UI
- Basic art and code knowledge is a plus
- Must have shipped at least 2 titles as a lead designer
- Strong creative skills, can generate efficient ideas and communicate them
- Excellent communication skills, can listen, filter, summarize and explain to persons of various experience levels and cultures
- Strong organization skills, in particular time management
- Excellent leadership, team building and mentorship skills necessary
- Interest in Human Relations responsibilities and skills
- Genuine interest in people’s career growth
- International experience a plus
Online Lead Designer
Responsibility:
- The Online Lead Designer is in charge of develop social games for our clients, he oversee design for all systems and features from the pre-production to live release
- Based on the client’s licenses, he propose high-concept design, and he works with the director and producers to deliver bible
- He establishes design and integration process for all feature and community content
- And also it is his responsibility to develop and improve
- He needs to help the team rapidly iterating level design, score, monetization, and virtual economy balancing
- As part of the design team, he is also expected to contribute to general game design, as well as cooperate with all other facets of game production (programming, environment/world art and animation).
Requirement:
- Released at least 1 freemium or social game (online or iOS)
- Has at least 5y experience in the game industry, working on Web games, consoles, online or mobile
- Worked as a lead on at least one project
- Be able to communicate in a clear and concise way, and be the bridge between the directors and the designers
- Is able to consider game-wide mechanics including pacing and story, game balance, and difficulty curve.
- Possess the ability and desire to contribute in a highly creative environment, provide unique concepts and solutions.
- Have a good understanding of the game market, can analyze competitive products to identify key strengths and weaknesses.
- Be able to quickly adapt to change, finding creative solutions and maintaining positive momentum in the face of adversity.
- Be able to communicate, evolve, and proactively push the game design; and moreover, have a passion for playing / creating creative and quality videogames.
- Bachelor with good command of written and spoken English
Junior online game designer
Responsibility
- Responsible for online game development
- Collaborate with designers and programmers to design, integrate and tune gameplay features
- Assist the team to deliver the design features on time
Job Requirement:
- Education background： College degree or above
- Major： Web or Industrial Design, or Computer Science
- Work experience： better to be a QA for more than 1 year
- Software skill：
- Document software：Excel、Outlook、PowerPoint、Visio、Word
- Artist Software：Adobe Photoshop
- Others：
- Good attitude and eager to learn
- Love online games and better to have played a lot of online games
- Used to be a manager in a big online game guide
Value Designer
Responsibility:
- Responsible for online game develop
- Responsible for value definition and analyzing for all the system
- Responsible for value balancing
- Analyze and modify all the value for all the game systems
- Assist manager and finish all the assignment. Give advices and try to reduce the development risks.
- Assist the team to be more efficient by good communication.
Job Requirement:
- Education background: Bachelor’s degree or above
- Major: Mathematics or technology
- Work experience: At least work as a online game developer for a year and at least worked as a value designer for a online game
- Software skill：
- Document software: Excel、Outlook、PowerPoint、Visio、Word
- Artist Software: Adobe Photoshop
- Others：
- Have passion for games.
- Have Patience and good communication skill.
- Have good understanding of game value. For example, classes definition, skill damage, value balance.
- Responsible for customer analyze and investigation
- Responsible for data gathering and analyze
- Responsible for GM TOOLS design
- Responsible for customer behavior definition and design
- Make plans for close alpha and beta
- Assist manager and finish all the assignment. Give advices and try to reduce the development risks.
- Assist the team to be more efficient by good communication.
- Education background：College degree or above. Major in Economics or Philosophy would be better
- Work experience：At least work as a online game developer for 2 years and at least participate in a online game operation
- Software skill：
- Document software：Excel、Outlook、PowerPoint、Visio、Word
- Artist Software：Adobe Photoshop
- Others：
- Have passion for games.
- Familiar with data gathering and analyzing
- The mentality is clear and organized
- Have Patience and good communication skill
- Responsible for online game quest system development.
- Responsible for designing quest editor.
- Responsible for writing the scripts for quest and story design
- Monitor quest system which is still been developing
- Assist manager and finish all the assignment. Give advices and try to reduce the development risks.
- Assist the team to be more efficient by good communication.
- Education background：College degree or above. Major in History, Psychology, or Philosophy would be better.
- Work experience：better to be an online game designer for more than 1 year, designed the quest system for an online game.
- Software skill：
- Document software：Windows Vista、Windows 7、Excel、Outlook、PowerPoint、Visio、Word
- Artist Software：Adobe Photoshop、CorelDraw
- Others：
- Have passion for games.
- Organized and logical. Can notice the details.
- Have good understanding of designing of quest editor.
- Have good understanding of designing stories for quests and world outlook.
Position is available in Shanghai and Chengdu, Please send resume, motivation letter and sample work portfolio with reference number (If available) to hr(at)virtuos.com.cn, or write to HR Department, Virtuos, 10th Floor, 1326 Yan’an Xi Lu, 200052 Shanghai, PRC; hr.chengdu(at)virtuos.com.cn, or write to HR Department, Virtuos Ltd., 12th Floor, Everbright Finance Center, No.9 Wenwu Road, Qingyang District, 600017, Chengdu, PRC